Researchers in South Africa have recommended “gender transformative” approaches in the support of healthy infant nutrition. They recommend couple-focused programmes that challenge existing gender roles, support the inclusion of fathers …
Category: Infant diet
USAID Advancing Nutrition is the flagship nutrition project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It seeks to understand experiences from nutrition programs around the world that engage …
A qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with 10 fathers in Matabeleland in Zimbabwe found higher levels of involvement by fathers in complementary feeding than the researcher was expecting. The fathers …
Whilst nutrition-sensitive agriculture projects in rural areas of developing countries typically focus on empowering women to bring about positive outcomes, a study from Ethiopia has found a strong association between …
A study in USA has looked at the infant feeding attitudes and practices of African-American mothers and of other carers highly involved in feeding babies and toddlers. Because of the …
Research from USA finds that, around feeding of their infant, mothers tend to lead but fathers become increasingly engaged and autonomous as the child grows older. The study also found …
A qualitative study of men’s involvement in maternal and newborn health in rural Malawi highlights the fact that fathers’ roles are changing in relation to infant nutrition, and their increasing …
A study of severe wasting in Gambia has found that the influence of the husband/father on child nutrition is crucial. Encouragingly, though not specifically seeking this data, the researchers observed …
The main contribution of fathers to their children’s nutrition in rural Uganda is providing money to buy food. In a study involving 346 households, 94% of the men did this, …
A study from Ethiopia has found that mothers having individual support, mostly from family, is the strongest predictor of better infant nutrition. A number of aspects of social capital were …